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| Burying women alive is murder: clerics |
| 2008-09-05 |
| Clerics of different schools of thought have condemned the incident in which women in Balochistan were buried alive, something that is "illegitimate murder" according to the scripture, they said. "This is illegitimate killing and according to the Holy Quran and Sunnah or the way of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), whether the slayer is a king or a slave, they need to be punished like a culprit," explained the chairman of the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee of Pakistan and the principal of Darul Uloom Naeemia, Mufti Muneeb ur Rehman on Thursday while talking to Daily Times. One of the Hadith elaborates that victims of such crimes will raise their voices before Allah on the Day of Judgment and will point to the culprits and the rulers of that time as well, Mufti Rehman said. Such incidents remind Allama Syed Aun Muhammad Naqvi of the Stone Age. "Hazrat Ali (RA) said that when the sweat of a rapist falls on the soil, the soil hates that man," he said. "The cries of the victims and the innocent shake the land and the sky and Allah visits His disaster on that place." He said that just as Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) will question the tragedy that happened to him, each sufferer would ask Allah for an explanation. Therefore, Allama Naqvi added, it is the responsibility of the rulers to take immediate action against the culprits. "Not even a husband, brother, son, father or relative has the right to kill a woman who is found in an illegal physical relation with someone," explained the principal of Jamia Darul Khair Gulistan-e-Johar Mufti Yar Khan. "And even if they do, they still can't kill her because it would be murder." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Burying women alive is murder: clerics ...especially if you get caught. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-05 14:47 |